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New hedge fund launches show first year-on-year rise in the last four years

Tue Feb 22, 2011

New fund launches in Europe showed year-on-year growth for the first time since 2006 last year – both in numbers and in assets. But the pace is still way below its pre-crisis peak levels

The pace of new hedge fund launches in Europe continued to
recover in 2010 as the industry’s revival from the
lows of late 2008 and early 2009 began to take root –
although the overall level of new launch activity remains a
long way below its pre-crisis peak.

That is the key finding of the annual survey of new hedge
fund launches conducted by the EuroHedge research and data team
– which shows that some 157 new hedge funds launched
in Europe in the 2010 calendar year, raising combined assets of
some $11.8 billion.

The figure represents a rise of just over 10% on the
corresponding figure in 2009 – when 142 new European
hedge funds launched during the year – in terms of the
number of new launches, and a rise of around 6% in terms of the
assets raised against the comparable figure of $11.15 billion
in 2009.

Despite...

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